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Poland's arms exports drop by 20 percent in 2019 - MFA

Poland's arms exports drop by 20 percent in 2019 - MFA Leszek Szymański/PAP

The value of Polish arms and military equipment exports fell in 2019 by 20 percent according to a report released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday.

Field tests carried out on new Polish autonomous military vehicle

Field tests are being carried out on the Perun autonomous reconnaissance-combat vehicle at a site in Gizycko, northeastern Poland, by the Tarnow Mechanical Plant (ZMT), the Polish Armament Group (PGZ), to which ZMT belongs, announced on Thursday.

Guns in the attic: school gets shock when WWII weapons components found in loft

Pieces of World War II rifles have been found in the attic of a school in eastern Poland but just why they were left there decades ago remains a mystery.

A group of military enthusiasts has recreated Poland’s first ever armoured vehicle

Named Piłsudski’s tank it had its baptism of fire in street fighting in Lwów in 1918 when Poles were fighting to establish the new country’s eastern borders. To raise morale it was also decorated with an American flag to show that Poland was not alone in its struggle but backed by US President Woodrow Wilson.

Record orders for Polish defence contractors from Polish army - PM

We have a situation that we've waited a long time for, we have a record amount of orders for Polish contractors from the Polish army, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at the Jelcz-Laskowice military-truck factory in south-western Poland on Wednesday.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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